Why Your Time Tracking Tool Should Be Open Source
Vendor lock-in, surprise pricing, and disappearing features. Here's why open source time tracking isn't just nice to have — it's the only sane choice.
10 posts tagged with "Opinion"
Vendor lock-in, surprise pricing, and disappearing features. Here's why open source time tracking isn't just nice to have — it's the only sane choice.
A 50-person team on Harvest pays $600/month. On Miru Pro, that's $50. Here's the math on why per-seat pricing is a scam.
Per-seat pricing at $10-15/person is a racket. Here's the math behind Miru's $1/member pricing and why it works.
Slack, Harvest, Jira — they all charge per seat. Here's why this pricing model punishes growth and how to escape it.
No annual lock-ins. No discounts for commitment. If the product is good, people stay. If it's not, no contract will save you.
Public roadmaps are a trap. They become contracts, not plans. Here's why we stopped publishing ours and what we do instead.
One day a week with zero meetings. No standups, no syncs, no 'quick calls.' Just eight hours of uninterrupted work.
Microservices are a scaling solution for organizations, not technology. Here's why a Rails monolith serves Miru perfectly.
You're charging $50/hour when you should charge $150. Here's the math, the psychology, and the permission you need.
TypeScript is great for React components. It's overkill for a Rails API. Here's our take on where types help and where they just add noise.
Miru takes the topics we write about here and puts them into one product: time tracking, invoicing, reporting, expenses, and payments.